Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook is one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities. Very interesting to see the American Cancer Society on the list as its budget - according to a 2005 annual report linked on their Guidestar Profile is well over $10 million).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Rather than donating the money to nonprofits through a traditional corporate responsibility grant program, Pepsi will jump on the online contest bandwagon. Pepsi will have contests every month for 10 months beginning Jan. Arts & Culture. The grant categories will be: Health. Food & Shelter. The Planet.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Pumpkin Carving Contest. come judge the contest. Or simply allow folks to carve in advance and drop their beautiful works of art off to be judged! The purpose of no-shave November comes from cancer awareness. The Testicular Cancer Foundation’s Beard Patrol campaign has got No-Shave November down.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

In 2019, Art in Action partnered with a local outpost of popular national jewelry retainer Kendra Scott to host a local shopping day where 20% of proceeds went to AiA (including online sales through a custom link!). Work with local wineries or shops to have wine and refreshments donated for your event, then charge by the tasting.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Since we launched in May 2007, 60 million people have started using Causes and over 250,000 causes have been created about every topic from halting global warming to supporting arts education. Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4 Then, she grew her cause, The Race to End Cancer, to 5.4

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

Also, the Sean Kimerling Testicular Cancer Foundation recently posted a humorous video about the importance of checking oneself for testicular cancer, which landed on the YouTube homepage and garnered well over one million views in three days. What trends do you foresee with respect to video use by nonprofits?

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

Also, the Sean Kimerling Testicular Cancer Foundation recently posted a humorous video about the importance of checking oneself for testicular cancer, which landed on the YouTube homepage and garnered well over one million views in three days. What trends do you foresee with respect to video use by nonprofits?

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